Quotes About Values

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value." So

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value.

If we don't have to change self-destructive or wasteful patterns, we won't. But basically we are resourceful creatures, and if we can tolerate deprivation and fear, we can also change and learn how to have more healthy behavior and different values.

And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.

Growing up, I considered [my dad] to be an exemplar of fidelity. For instance, he didn't believe in removing his wedding ring, no matter what. Whenever he washed his hands, he would thoroughly scrub his right hand, then align his two ring fingers tip to tip, slide the ring from his left ring finger to his right, then scrub his left hand.

This is America, after all, where a man's hygiene and sense of humor are more important than his pedigree.

I'm not really interested in making money.

Ni en el mundo antiguo ni en el medieval se concebía como una meta nada parecido a la ciencia moderna. De hecho, si nuestros predecesores pudieran haber imaginado la ciencia como es en la actualidad, no les habría gustado mucho. La ciencia moderna es impersonal, no deja espacio a la intervención sobrenatural ni a los va lores humanos; no tiene ningún propósito, y tampoco ofrece esperanzas de certezas.

Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization

Cossics do not understand Mewts. They ascribe to them the morals and values of Cos. This is a grave mistake. I am not Cossic, and I can appreciate the Mewtish mind only too well. The Cossic nobleman is a thinker; honourable, loyal, and traditional, but he keeps emotion in check. Challis Hespereth demands sex as a sacrifice, not love. The Mewt, on the other hand, is a passionate individual; he feels. Love to him is all; it is his god. He would die for for it.

But Laplace's particles in motion allow only happenings. There are no meanings, no values, no doings.

The audience as community has come to depend on the performer's skills, and on the force of a personal style, to articulate its common values and interpret its experiences.

To Americans, the outward display of intelligence is considered unseemly. The Donald Trumps of the world can boast about their penthouses and Ferraris, their women can wear baubles the size of Nebraska, and no one says boo. If you have money, you're almost always expected to flaunt it. But intellect? This is something else entirely. Women, especially, are supposed to play dumb.

We sent him to school for him to take this heavy equipment. I worked and cooked over at the school, helped send him there. I said, "I'm not sendin' you to school to come out here and go to work for these strip mines." I'd rather see him in Vietnam than see him doin' strip jobs.

goodness is ours to dispense. It's a currency that each of us gets to invent and denominate. David's had pictures of Chopin and Keith Richards on it. Mine had my dog.

To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, "I am the equipper, not the doer." If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

Enough! I've known Alice for almost four years, and I would never use her for gain. Our friendship stands apart from family politics, business, and everything else.

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Yet, even if we are the only parents who don't let our teen do something, we still have to do what we believe is best for our child. We are not running for most popular parent.

Você precisa criar sua própria estratégia pessoal para menos confusão, para parar de pensar que precisa gastar dinheiro que não possui em coisas que não precisa para impressionar pessoas que nem gosta.

What's the good of one person clinging to his morals when everyone else is so corrupt? What's the good of that?